Reddit user /u/popingheads has posted a video to the League of Legends subreddit showing his champion getting placed in to two separate matches at the same time. Its as odd as you might think. Both of the matches seem to feature the same 10 players. While Popingheads team plays in one game, the other team seems to be playing in the other. So which on is the right one? Only Riot knows, and I doubt they will be telling...
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Riot Games acquires Radiant Entertainment
Riot games (maker of League of Legends) is not a company you often see in the news. They tend to spend most of their time on League, because its one of the most popular games in the world. So I was surprised to see the news that they had acquired Radiant Entertainment. In a statement Radiant said “We are delighted to announce that Radiant Entertainment has been acquired by Riot Games. At Riot, our developers will continue their mission...
Continue reading...League of Legends releases smartphone app
Riot Studios has the worlds most popular and most played game League of Legends to manage, so its too surprising that it took them until 2016 to get a mobile app out. The new app called League Friends does a myriad of usefull things. You can use it to chat with your friends who are playing league, you can have it push you notifications for when you are invited to play a game of league, and well thats...
Continue reading...League of Legends kills off Dominion game type
Riot has announced today in a blog post that its capture based game made for League of Legends will be shutting down. Since its inception Dominion has been an unpopular game mode, and it never pulled in the numbers that Riot had hoped. It will be retired on Feburary 22nd, after which it will not longer be available in custom games either. According to Riot Fewer than 0.5% of League of Legends players regularly take part in Dominion,...
Continue reading...Tencent Purchases Remaining Stake In League of Legends Developer Riot Games
TenCent the Chinese technological behemoth that operates the popular Chinese FPS Cross Fire and holds a minority stake in Epic Games among other entertainment ventures has purchased the remaining equity in League of Legends developer Riot Games. This change in ownership was announced via Riot Game’s official website. They say that this allow them to offer more competitive wages and benefits to the employees while continuing their upward growth. Here’s the full statement as it appears on...
Continue reading...The Marksmen Have Arrived! lets take a look at Graves! With Hoodie Joy
League of Legends preseason for season 6 has hit, and it’s a doozy. We’ve got some heavy hitting changes, and one of the heaviest hitters is Graves. Graves has always had trouble finding his niche to fit, but now it’s even harder. Because he can go everywhere. Graves is overpowered. You can argue people just haven’t learned him yet, but this is pretty empty considering he can burst people down faster than he can fire three shots. Top...
Continue reading...LoL Preseason Breakdown, Everything you need to know
League of Legends preseason is coming up, and that means everything is about to change. We have a lot of official information from their site and unofficial information from the PBE. Most champions with Mana as a resource are getting new mana pool sizes and scaling to adjust for mana pots being removed, and several less viable champions are getting reworks. This article will be focusing on the item changes. The first thing to note is an...
Continue reading...League of legends team Impulse is for sale
E-sports is big money, there can be no denying that at this point. So its no surprise that just like other pro sports team, League teams can be bought and sold. What is a surprise is one that is in the LCS (basically the major leagues of LoL) for sale at the time of the world championship. The team in question is Impulse, whom are already qualified for the 2016 LCS, meaning the sale comes with their...
Continue reading...Was There A League of Legends Card Game In The Works?
Over the weekend a twitter account belonging to Riot Game’ president and co-founder Mark Merrill appears to have been compromised. A hacker using the handle ‘Jason’ took control of Mr.Merrill’s account on Saturday and posted several images and details for a cancelled &unannounced League of Legends trading card game called ‘League of Legends Supremacy’. Supposedly the game had been completed by the folks over at Riot Games but for unknown reasons they decided to scrap the project...
Continue reading...League of Legends On Watch After Heroes of Newerth Hack
Fans of the MOBA genre and the creators of their favorite games are on watch after Heroes of Newerth was hacked this afternoon. Originally appearing on Reddit, a user by the name of Ryan_HTP posted about the hack with a twitter link as supposed truth. Apparently he made off with the usernames and passwords for the games accounts. According to Ryan he’s also planning to attack competing game, League of Legends, a later time just to enrage...
Continue reading...League of Legends EU Accounts Compromised
We are no strangers to Riot Game’s PC MOBA title League of Legends here at Broken Joysticks. It’s disheartening to hear that the games West and Nordic European servers have been compromised and encrypted passwords & email addresses have been placed in the hands of those who would use them for harm. The company says that no billing related information has been obtained by the hackers but if they were to un-encrypt the passwords used for the...
Continue reading...Make Money From League of Legends, Officially
Today Riot Games released a brief guide (in plain English, not legalese) officially informing the League of Legends community that they fully allow not only the production and uploading of League of Legends content on video sites such as YouTube and Twitch.tv, but also the collection of advertising revenue associated with such content by the producers. This was done to remove any ambiguity regarding the legal problems that could potentially arise from someone broadcasting (and making money...
Continue reading...LOL: Invitational For The Pros, Bonus For The Players
Riot Games has announced that on Friday, June 1st, they will be hosting the first ever Riot World Invitational in Las Vegas, broadcast live on their website beginning at 12pm Pacific time. The Invitational will feature a set of matches pitting five top-ranked League of Legends players from around the world against five of the best Riot staff members. Additionally, for all League of Legends players, Riot will be giving a 100% bonus on all Influence Points...
Continue reading...Jax Brings In Nearly Half A Million Dollars
To update you on a previous story, Riot Games has announced that at the completion of their fundraiser on Friday, over $480,000 came in due to the participation of over 140,000 contributors, “100 percent of which will go to Make-A-Wish America and Make-A-Wish International in Joe’s name.” This fundraising plan by Riot mirrors one they ran a year ago to benefit the earthquake and tsunami relief efforts in Japan, where over 50,000 League of Legends players helped...
Continue reading...Riot Games Raising Cash for Kids
From now until May 18th, League of Legends makers Riot Games is donating the entirety of the purchase price of the champion Jax and his Jaximus skin to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, as well as marking both of those items at a 50% discount. Riot said they were inspired to make this move after partnering with the Foundation to provide a trip and tour of their offices for Joe, a young man with a rare bone cancer. ” We were...
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